| Identification and management of technical debt: A systematic mapping study NSR Alves, TS Mendes, MG De Mendonça, RO Spínola, F Shull, ... Information and Software Technology 70, 100-121, 2016 | 430 | 2016 |
| A tertiary study on technical debt: Types, management strategies, research trends, and base information for practitioners N Rios, MG de Mendonça Neto, RO Spínola Information and Software Technology 102, 117-145, 2018 | 252 | 2018 |
| Towards an ontology of terms on technical debt NSR Alves, LF Ribeiro, V Caires, TS Mendes, RO Spínola 2014 sixth international workshop on managing technical debt, 1-7, 2014 | 231 | 2014 |
| The practitioners’ point of view on the concept of technical debt and its causes and consequences: a design for a global family of industrial surveys and its first results from … N Rios, RO Spínola, M Mendonça, C Seaman Empirical Software Engineering 25, 3216-3287, 2020 | 94 | 2020 |
| The most common causes and effects of technical debt: first results from a global family of industrial surveys N Rios, RO Spínola, M Mendonça, C Seaman Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical …, 2018 | 91 | 2018 |
| Actions and impediments for technical debt prevention: results from a global family of industrial surveys S Freire, N Rios, M Mendonça, D Falessi, C Seaman, C Izurieta, ... Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 1548-1555, 2020 | 57 | 2020 |
| Supporting analysis of technical debt causes and effects with cross-company probabilistic cause-effect diagrams N Rios, RO Spínola, M Mendonça, C Seaman 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), 3-12, 2019 | 56 | 2019 |
| Investigating the link between user stories and documentation debt on software projects HF Soares, NSR Alves, TS Mendes, M Mendonça, RO Spinola 2015 12th International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations …, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Surveying software practitioners on technical debt payment practices and reasons for not paying off debt items S Freire, N Rios, B Gutierrez, D Torres, M Mendonça, C Izurieta, ... Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Evaluation and …, 2020 | 53 | 2020 |
| Hearing the voice of software practitioners on causes, effects, and practices to deal with documentation debt N Rios, L Mendes, C Cerdeiral, APF Magalhães, B Perez, D Correal, ... Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 26th …, 2020 | 47 | 2020 |
| Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry R Ramač, V Mandić, N Taušan, N Rios, S Freire, B Pérez, C Castellanos, ... Journal of Systems and Software 184, 111114, 2022 | 40 | 2022 |
| Technical debt payment and prevention through the lenses of software architects B Pérez, C Castellanos, D Correal, N Rios, S Freire, R Spínola, ... Information and Software Technology 140, 106692, 2021 | 31 | 2021 |
| What are the practices used by software practitioners on technical debt payment: results from an international family of surveys B Pérez, C Castellanos, D Correal, N Rios, S Freire, R Spínola, ... Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Technical Debt, 103-112, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| Causes and effects of the presence of technical debt in agile software projects N Rios, MG Mendonça, C Seaman, RO Spínola | 29 | 2019 |
| A study of factors that lead development teams to incur technical debt in software projects N Rios, RO Spinola, MG de Mendonça Neto, C Seaman 2018 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced …, 2018 | 24 | 2018 |
| Common causes and effects of technical debt in serbian it: Insightd survey replication R Ramač, V Mandić, N Taušan, N Rios, MG de Mendonca Neto, ... 2020 46th euromicro conference on software engineering and advanced …, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| Familiarity, causes and reactions of software practitioners to the presence of technical debt: a replicated study in the chilean software industry B Pérez, JP Brito, H Astudillo, D Correal, N Rios, RO Spínola, ... 2019 38th international conference of the chilean computer science society …, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| Software practitioners’ point of view on technical debt payment S Freire, N Rios, B Pérez, C Castellanos, D Correal, R Ramač, V Mandić, ... Journal of Systems and Software 196, 111554, 2023 | 20 | 2023 |
| Pitfalls and solutions for technical debt management in agile software projects S Freire, N Rios, B Pérez, C Castellanos, D Correal, R Ramač, V Mandić, ... IEEE Software 38 (6), 42-49, 2021 | 20 | 2021 |
| On the relationship between technical debt management and process models N Rios, S Freire, B Perez, C Castellanos, D Correal, M Mendonça, ... IEEE Software 38 (5), 56-64, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
Rodrigo SpínolaAssociate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityVerified email at vcu.edu